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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 11, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 15.

Coal Miners’ Strike Threatened

The joint conference of United Mine Workers and mine owners, which was in session for a week, terminated its sitting on March 29, with a complete disagreement over the wage scale. Neither the operators nor the miners would yield. A strike involving 500,000 men operating in the coal regions of the United States, now seems certain. On the day of the close of this conference, President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, ordered a strike of the miners working in all the anthracite mines, involving approximately 150,000 men. The threat of a strike has already begun to send up the price of coal.